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How to change search engine in Nova launcher?
Firstly, remove the Google Search bar. After that, hold anywhere in the homescreen where there ins't any icons. Click "Widgets". Then browse to the widget of the search bar of your choice.
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How can I stop the status bar from hiding?
Nova Launcher has dozens of settings for its Home Screen layout and personalization. Included is a Notification bar setting, which allows the device owner to hide it on the Home Screen.
It can be ...
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Add URL to homescreen
For anyone searching: Fennec Fdroid can do that with a little detour. Create a bookmark for any page and then edit that bookmark -- you can then enter any URL you like. For the bookmark, you can ...
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Main app's icons overlays in Nova Prime's widgets
what is its source: is it caused by recent change to Contacts or Nova Prime?
Rahul in comments has pointed the reason (thanks Rahul). It is an OS feature introduced from Oreo (and the likely reason ...
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How to make an invisible (transparent/blank) app icon in Nova Launcher?
Took me a bit, but I figured it out:
Download and install Pocket Paint from F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.catrobat.paintroid/
Create a completely empty (and transparent) .png file, ...
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Creating launcher icon to Google Play Store's "Manage apps & device" page (preferably in Nova launcher)
Long-Press on the Play Store shortcut.
My Apps will be among the option shown. Long press on it to move it to your screen an create a shortcut.
Press the icon to open Manage apps & device.
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default home app / launcher reset after Android 11 update
It looks like the upgrade messed up the default home app setting. Good news: it's really easy to fix:
Settings / Apps & Notifications / Advanced / Default apps / Home app
After the uprade, this ...
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App installed from apk, but not in app drawer and in settings
Seems like a spying apps which can install in stealth mode and never being detected.
Try with ADB commands to check if it appears in the list of installed apps and eventually delete it.
Download ...
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Opening incognito tab in chrome when swiping on chrome icon?
I found a way to do it by going into swipe action: then to the shortcuts tab: Activities at the top of the list: scroll all the way to find chrome: and tap on (com.google.android.apps.chrome.main)
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How to change search engine in Nova launcher?
I figured out how to change the default browser of perstant search bar in Nova without removing it for a different widget.
Nova launcher > Home screen > search bar style > Nova search > ...
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